Sometimes, I have just too much fun. At work I’m following a workflow document to see if it actually, y’know, works and proofing it along the way. To work through the steps in the document I’ve had to create Medicare plan members I can play around with, enroll in plans, sign up with doctors, callContinue reading “On Work Fun”
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On Unique Names
Thanks to a couple of friends: HowManyOfMe.com There is:1person with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? The thing I found interesting was the breakdown of the statistics. Let’s quote its bit on “Allyn”: There are 1,500 people in the U.S. with the first name Allyn 4019th most popular first name. (tied withContinue reading “On Unique Names”
On Chewbacca
Chewbacca has a blog. That is all. 😆
On Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day, a day in which scallywags are allowed to be silly and liberally sprinke their vocabulary with an “Aye, matey,” and “Arr, ye scurvy sea dog,” and “Avast and ahoy!” Perhaps, to a Pastafarian Talk Like a Pirate Day should be mark some sort of religious festival. OneContinue reading “On Talk Like a Pirate Day”
On Testing Batteries
Who among us has not tested a 9-volt battery by touching its leads to our tongues? I discovered this as a child–taking the 9-volt, sticking out my tongue, touching the exposed leads to the tongue, and getting a shock as the current flows. At a recent inventory, after I’d pulled a weak 9-volt battery fromContinue reading “On Testing Batteries”
On a Horoscope
Every week, usually Wednesday, I pick up the Raleigh-area free weekly, the Independent. It's not a particularly great free weekly, but for reading fodder for a lunch break it fills the need nicely. One thing I particularly enjoy reading, just because it's so strange, is the horoscope, Rob Breszny's Free Will Astrology. Breszny goes offContinue reading “On a Horoscope”
On Giant Microbes
Damn, I wish I‘d thought of this. 🙂 A company, GIANTmicrobes, offers plush dolls of all your favorite viruses and bacteria, like the Black Death and influenza. They even offer venereal diseases, like syphillis. The cuteness appeals to my sense of the perverse. 😀
On a Random Observation
If you take used coffee grounds, seal them (and the used filter) in shrinkwrap film, and zap it with a heat gun, then you get something incredibly gross.
On Talk Like A Pirate Day
Avast, ye maties! Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arr, I’ll prod ye with me sword and make ye walk the plank!
On the Use of Hamsters
The things students will do. One built a hamster-powered cell phone charger. [Peter] Ash told Ananova: “I thought the wheel could be made to do something useful so I connected a system of gears and a turbine.” He then patched the output to his mobe’s charger and voila! – free hamster energy at around thirtyContinue reading “On the Use of Hamsters”